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RANSOM RIGGS - GEBRAUCHT MISS PEREGRINES HOME F...

The #1 New York Times best-selling series. Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an
interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island.   An abandoned orphanage.   A strange
collection of very curious photographs.  It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home
for Peculiar Children  an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling
reading experience. As our story opens  a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob
journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales  where he discovers the crumbling ruins of
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and
hallways  it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been
dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And
somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive.   A spine-tingling fantasy
illustrated with haunting vintage photography  Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will
delight adults  teens  and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows. A tense  moving 
and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to
create an unforgettable story.-John Green  New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in
Our Stars With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line  David Lynchian imagery  and
rich  eerie detail  it's no wonder Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped
up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+-Entertainment Weekly 'Peculiar' doesn't even begin to cover it.
Riggs' chilling  wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.-People You'll love it if you
want a good thriller for the summer. It's a mystery  and you'll race to solve it before Jacob
figures it out for himself.-Seventeen

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